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Richard Dooling’s first novel, Critical Care, became a film directed by Sidney Lumet, starring James Spader and Helen Mirren. His second novel, White Man’s Grave, was a finalist for the 1994 National Book Award. Brain Storm and Bet Your Life were both New York Times Notable Books of the Year.
His nonfiction includes Blue Streak: Swearing, Free Speech, and Sexual Harassment and Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ. His story “Diary of an Immortal Man,” published in Esquire, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The L.A. Times, and The National Review.
In 2003–2004, Dooling co-wrote and produced Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital for ABC. Writing as Eleanor Druse, a mystic in residence at Kingdom Hospital, he also wrote The Journals of Eleanor Druse, a New York Times bestseller.
His latest work, Send the Dead, is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle. He is currently finishing The Acolyte, a literary novel set in a Catholic cathedral raided by the FBI.
Dooling grew up in Omaha and worked in intensive care units before spending a year traveling in Europe and Africa—the experience that became White Man’s Grave—then went back to law school at Saint Louis University, where he edited the law journal. He practiced law at Bryan Cave LLP before leaving to write full time. He lives in Montana with his wife, Kristy.
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